LONDON – Twelve newly commissioned items of music will play on the coronation of Britain’s King Charles at Westminster Abbey this May, together with Greek Orthodox music, Buckingham Palace mentioned, with the 18th century “Zadok the Priest” additionally to be featured.
Six orchestral commissions, 5 choral commissions and one organ fee have been composed for the event, the palace mentioned on Saturday, together with a brand new Coronation Anthem by musical theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber.
“A range of musical styles and performers blend tradition, heritage and ceremony with new musical voices of today, reflecting The King’s life-long love and support of music and the arts,” the palace mentioned in a press release.
It additionally mentioned Charles requested Greek Orthodox music, which might be traced again to the Byzantine interval, to be featured within the service in tribute to his father, Prince Philip, who was born on the Greek island of Corfu. He died in 2021.
Fanfares will probably be performed by The State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry and The Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Air Force, the palace mentioned.
One of the liturgical sections of the ceremony may even be carried out in Welsh to mirror Charles’s “long-standing and deeply held relationship and affiliation with Wales,” based on the assertion.
Music by classical composers together with George Frideric Handel, Edward Elgar, Hubert Parry and Ralph Vaughan Williams, a few of which has traditionally featured within the service for 400 years, will probably be included in this system, together with the music of residing Welsh composer Karl Jenkins.
Music by Elgar, Parry, and Williams had been additionally carried out on the crowning of Charles’s late mom, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953.
Handel’s coronation anthem “Zadok the Priest,” which was composed for the coronation of King George II in 1727, will probably be performed on the ceremony, the palace mentioned.
“I have scored it for the Westminster Abbey choir and organ, the ceremonial brass and orchestra. I hope my anthem reflects this joyful occasion,” composer Lloyd Webber mentioned of his coronation anthem within the assertion. —Reuters
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